On Wed, 19 May 2010 08:01:35 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It was discussed on linux-kernel -- note that there is no breakage for > smaller architectures unless you enable the test directly or via randconfig. or allmodconfig or allyesconfig. > The other part is that generic atomic64_t has been available since > middle of 2009, and was *also* discussed extensively on linux-kernel -- > in fact, several of the smaller architectures added support at that > time. That the breakage occurred because of an inconsequential test > rather than real code is thus really nothing but fortunate. I don't disagree with any of that (except that an m68k allmodconfig build may well build fine without the test being built so maybe building the test needs a dependency). My point was that I keep hearing the "Linus said it is OK to break the other architectures" argument brought up where it really is not even relevant to the conversation. If anything, I guess Geert was taking a little dig at me because his problem should have been noticed among my build results. Unfortunately even I don't check all the build results all the time (I guess I hope that maintainers may have time to check them out once in a while). -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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